Extell has filed permits for its proposed 86-story residential supertall at 80 West 67th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. At 1,198 feet tall, the skyscraper would easily surpass the 775-foot 50 West 60th Street as the tallest building in the neighborhood. The concrete-based structure is planned to span 1,214,792 square feet and yield 430 units with an average scope of 2,766 square feet. The building would also include 25,246 square feet of commercial space, two cellar levels, and a 187-vehicle parking garage. The project was formerly known as 77 West 66th Street and is located on the east side of Columbus Avenue between West 66th and 67th Streets.
Jennifer Cheuk of Stephen B. Jacobs Group is listed as the architect of record with David Rothstein, executive vice president of Extell, listed as the owner on the permit.
The only diagrams released to date show an as-of-right design beginning with a multistory podium followed by a shallow setback. The tower then rises uniformly with a rectangular massing up to a cascade of setbacks at the top floors on the western face. Three mechanical levels, marked in gray, will be interspersed between the residential floors, and a bulkhead will cap the skyscraper.
77 West 66th Street zoning and massing diagram. Image by Model by George Janes & Associates.
Demolition unfolded on the former ABC/Disney site over the last several months and is now complete. The project involved the razing of buildings at 147 Columbus Avenue, 149 Columbus Avenue, 77 West 66th Street, and 47 West 66th Street.
The site is one block from 66th Street-Lincoln Center subway station, served by the 1 train.
An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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This is great. It’s about time the West side got some tall buildings and new construction.
Don’t forget extell’s future supertall on the upper east side too!
As Stephen Roth said about Gary Barnett…”he builds the ugliest building in NYC”
What a shame it will be Extell. Gary keeps proving money doesn’t buy taste. Greed is just plain ugly.
Property was rezoned to accommodate ABC- and this is the result. Future rezonings should be limited so as to not pass on to all uses of the property
The underground that’s buys US citizenships will buy these condos.
will you guys start using English? A rifle has a scope, apartments do not. They have a size
You do realize a synonymy for scope is range, right? When used in the article’s context of explaining the average apartment size, it’s correctly applied.
For someone that sounds so proud to know the English language, you should know better and start using your brain, you irate fuckwad. You sound more like a MAGA retard that shudders when hearing someone speaking a foreign language and telling them to go back to their country.
In the last few months I have noticed that room areas are measured in “spans.” The bedroom “spans 500 square feet.” Bridges have spans, just say, “the room contains/has 500 square feet.”
The English language is indeed tricky, with so many synonyms and uses for a single word. Then there are all the grammar and usage rules, such as beginning sentences with capital letters, and ending them with punctation markings. It is indeed tricky, Shakespeare might have touched on the need to tame the overgrown vines of this nasty language. Surely some empathy is called for so I want you to know that you are forgiven.
To think all of this for a comment that has nothing to do with architecture.
Based on the tonality, it looks like this isn’t the first time John has tried to attack Yimby for correctly using the word ‘scope.’
This is a common word to use when describing something’s relative size. I don’t see why there’s a need to chastise Yimby , as if they used it in a slanderous way. You need to calm down John Steinberg and channel your rage somewhere more useful than being a keyboard warrior.
Stick to architecture, John. Such an unnecessary and baseless statement.
Apartments have a size, too John. What in God’s name made you want to nitpick such an irrelevant part of the article?
Two days later and not a peep from John H Steinberg. What a coward.
This project will cast shadows both actually and socially. It should have a range of housing types spanning all income levels not just for the rich who might not even live there.
No. It shouldn’t. No one has a right to a brand new condo next to CP. people making 200-300k can’t afford that kind of place but sure let’s give cheap dream apartments to people with low incomes.
Why not have affordable housing when there is such great need for it in NYC. Those 430 units could yield more than 800 units based upon square footage alone still with many larger apartments in the same project. There should be a fair mix for all income levels. We do not need any more second or third homes for the rich.
Why should private companies be forced to build buildings for the poor. That is what communist countries do.
It’s a terribly inefficient solution to create housing. You’re talking apartments that would fetch 4K a square foot quite easily. In another location you can build 3-4x the amount of housing. You think about rich too black and white. People making 3-400k will not be able to afford a 2 bedroom in a building like this. You wouldn’t get a mix of income levels. You’d get super rich people and very poor people and everyone else is sol?
there absolutely will be an affordable housing component it is basically required at this point, very hard to get out of doing it as a developer. they will be at the bottom without views, its a good thing, deal with it.
40 W 67th Street—my home growing up—sits quietly among prewar Tudor buildings raised between 1915 and 1930, many crafted with acoustical soundproofing for musicians and the artistic community. Most have since earned landmark status.
For generations, this block has been a haven for actors, writers, composers, and performers — a small, steady hamlet where countless entertainment notables found both refuge and inspiration. Its scale, its quiet dignity, its sense of belonging have always made it feel like a village tucked inside the city.
This new tower will cast a long, heavy shadow over that legacy, reducing a cherished artistic enclave to just another eclectic block swallowed by height and glass. Its presence will fracture the continuity of a neighborhood built with intention and soul.
Piece by piece, the city is becoming a patchwork of anonymous steel and plexiglass. Nothing sacred seems safe anymore.
Amen.
Extell builds the biggest, ugliest buildings in the city. What, SOM and Gene Kaufman weren’t available for this colossus?? Not to worry, this building would do either of them proud.
OMG, can we please stop with these supertalls that are obviously overcompensation for the lack in other areas?! It’s like beating the chests and saying “mine is bigger!” Most of these building have structural issues brought on simply by height, some not even livable before completion. Don’t we already have enough buildings meant only for the super rich?
We could yet in order to do so we will need more people like you to decide to give up your apartments and leave the city. Is that what you want to do?
Given the architect, I bet the building is going to look like either Sutton Tower or The Encore by Lincoln Square.
They will hire a design architect to do this not mentioned in the article, likely a design competition for a project of this scale and grandeur
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. So many haggling nabobs of negativity! On the contrary, I say let the super-rich build their super-talls wherever they wish. Instead of griping & grumbling be grateful. Be grateful that they deign to live high above us in their sky-palaces, where they can show us the true benefits of trickle-down economics, as they gleefully piss on the rest of us from their penthouses. As Marie Antoinette famously once said: ”Honey, if you’ve got it, flaunt it …while you still can”.
hey Ethel,
On the contrary, I say let the super-rich build their super-talls wherever they wish and I wish they would build insight next to your home .
I bet my savings (Millions $$$$$$$$) that you will instantly become a NIMBY !
Then, Instead of griping & grumbling be grateful
Considering there seems to be yet another proposed “REDWOOD” craning for Central Park views,
I’d much rather be on either Fifth Avenue or Central Park West, just above the tree line,
maybe on the 6th floor?
From my balcony or terrace it would guarantee my views of the actual park in perpetuity,
as well as easy access just across the street! 🙂
I hope this turns out better than some of the other supertalls, which have plumbing and elevator problems due to their height.
Its not the height it’s called open shop ..which means the GC can’t have a union plumber with experience and schooling verse a non union plumber that doesn’t go to school or have experience in high rise ..supertall are different from doing a Walmart..
More homes for rich foreigners and transplants.